TagCompetition Law

[Gokul Plaha is a fifth year year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law University, Delhi] By way of an order dated 15 January 2019 passed under section 26(6) of the Competition Act, 2002 (the Act) in Jasper lnfotech Private Limited (Snapdeal) and KAFF Appliances (India) Pvt. Ltd. (KAFF) (15 January 2019), the Competition Commission of India (CCI) clarified that section 3(4)(e) of the...

[Kaustub N. S. Bhati and Prankul Boobana are 3rd Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons) students at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The Competition Commission of India (CCI) passed an order on 6 November 2018 dismissing the allegation that Ola and Uber (Cab Aggregators), through their algorithmic pricing mechanisms, are indulging in price fixation in accordance with section 3(3)(a) of the Competition Act...

[Muskan Agarwal is a 3rd-year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student of National Law Institute University, Bhopal] The Competition Act of 2002 [the “Act”] defines predatory pricing as the sale of goods or provision of services at a price which is below the cost of production, with a view to reduce competition or eliminate competitors. Predatory pricing is seen as abuse of dominant position under section 4 of...

[Samarth Saxena and Mohak Chikhale are Final Year students at ILS Law College, Pune] This post aims to critically analyse a constant conundrum in the Indian antitrust scenario, namely the relevant market analysis in the e-commerce sector. It does so in the context of the order (“Order”) of the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) in All India Online Vendors Association (“AIOVA”) v. Flipkart...

[Gunjan Garg is a 3rd year B.A LLB (Hons.) student of National Law Institute University, Bhopal] The Indian Competition Act in section 3 deals with ‘anti-competitive agreements’ which gives the Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) the power to prohibit any agreement between enterprises or persons engaged in identical or similar trade of goods and services, directly or indirectly resulting in...

[Vishal Singh is a III Year student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow] The Competition Act, 2002 has been enacted to prevent activities that have an adverse effect on competition in the Indian Market. The Preamble of the Act unambiguously enunciates the role of ‘economic efficiency’ in competition law. The goal of competition law is to build a competitive market and thus...

The Government of India has appointed a committee to review the Competition Act, 2002 to review the law and come up with recommendations to strengthen and re-calibrate the law. The Committee is expected to finish its work within three months of its first meeting. I wrote a column in the Business Standard earlier this week pointing out a few areas of low-hanging fruit that need attention. ...

[Swasti Gupta is a Research Associate at CUTS International, Jaipur] Overview The rapid emergence of “blockchain” in recent years has caused ripples in the global digital economy and has gripped the world’s attention. For those in search of a non-technical explanation, a blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger for transactions executed amongst the participants. It enables real-time...

[Anik Bhaduri is a second-year B.A., LL.B (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The rapid development of the digital world often presents issues which could not have been contemplated before, thus presenting new challenges to the existing legal framework, which has to modify itself to deal with the new problems. The development of pricing algorithms presents one such issue. As...

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